Niclas Fullkrug says it is important the German national side can set an example amidst political unrest
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00:00 I'll put it this way.
00:02 Politically, I always find it a bit difficult to express myself like that,
00:06 because I basically want to leave everyone with their own opinion.
00:10 I think influencing is very, very bad in this area.
00:15 But basically, it's important to me that we at least live out what I think is right in football,
00:22 or what we want to convey.
00:24 And I've talked about it before.
00:27 Football is something that starts very small, where you learn social behaviour,
00:32 where you learn to deal with each other in a group, in a small society,
00:38 to take care of each other, to work on successes, to work on defeats,
00:43 and to deal with it as a group.
00:44 In the end, it's what makes up our society in a small way.
00:49 And I think football helps a lot in spreading people to normal life,
00:56 more than in some other areas.
00:58 And that's why I think you want to be connected to someone on that level.
01:06 And that's football for me.
01:09 We're doing it professionally now, which is of course a different level.
01:12 But basically, I think it's always an advantage,
01:16 if you're already learning as a child, to integrate yourself socially into a group
01:19 and to be part of something there, where it's not just about yourself.